1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. In Activity 1, do any activities lend themselves to being done outside? | no | 2. In Activity 1, where does it say to place the sun in a model food chain? | above the producers | 3. In Activity 2, do any activities lend themselves to being done outside? | yes, Muskrat Survivor | 4. In Activity 2, are you required to do both Activity 2B and 2C? | no, it is up to teacher discretion to play either or both games | 5. In Activity 3, do any activities lend themselves to being done outside? | yes, Predator/Prey | 6. In Activity 3, if the population of bluebirds increases, what will happen to the population of insects? | it decreases | 7. In Activity 4, do any activities lend themselves to being done outside? | yes, the engagement looking for living, once living, and non-living factors | 8. In Activity 4, what does ppt mean? | parts per thousand |
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